Mississippi Death Row Appeal

This undated photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan.

 Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP

Mississippi’s oldest and longest serving death row prisoner, Richard Jordan, is trying again to challenge his sentence, this time arguing that it is invalid because the death penalty was not constitutional at the time of the murder.

“All in all, the fact remains that the only constitutional sentence for any classification of ‘murder’ at the time of Jordan’s offense was imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary,” his attorneys wrote in a Nov. 14 petition for post-conviction relief.

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